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floppy settings

VMX-file parameters

 

You got more or less 4 different options to use floppiess:

best choice: use a floppy-image not connected at boot-time - this doesn't block resources and leaves all options

 

floppy0.present = "true"
floppy0.fileName = "start.flp"
floppy0.fileType = "file"
floppy0.startConnected = "true"

 

If you boot from a floppy this is your best options - only in some rare cases like slackware-boot-floppies that use an unusual size like 1.77MB this will not work.
Floppy images can be 1.44MB or 2.88MB - I was able to use 11.52MB images but this may change with different versions.
For performance reasons disconnect as soon as possible.
Floppy-images boot almost as fast as virtual hard-disks.
Forget all your prejudices against slow, loud, old-fashioned real floppy-drives !!!

floppy0.present = "true"
floppy0.autodetect = "TRUE"
floppy0.startConnected = "true"
floppy0.fileType = "device"

This mode will try to auto-detect a physical device.

I never use this mode ...

floppy0.present = "true"
floppy0.startConnected = "true"

floppy0.autodetect = "false"
floppy0.fileName = "A:"
floppy0.fileType = "device"

This mode will use a physical drive of your host.
You can specify which device to use by giving the driveletter on Windows-hosts.

This setting allows booting from Floppy.
Failsafe option when you need to use a physical Floppy

floppy0.present = "true"
floppy0.startConnected = "true"
floppy0.autodetect = "false"

floppy0.filename = "/dev/fd0"
floppy0.fileType = "device"

This mode will use a physical drive of your host.
You can specify which device to use by useing the Linux-device name like /dev/fd0

This setting allows booting from Floppy.
Failsafe option when you need to use a physical Floppy


floppy0.allowGuestConnectionControl = "true"

Use to allow control via the vmware-tools from within a guest.

 

floppy0.clientDevice = "TRUE"

use to select an image on a remote-host - (VMserver)

floppy.minVirtualTime

old fix - no longer required - see kb

floppy0.changeTimeout

floppy0.trackCache

floppy.synchronous
floppy.raw.aiomgr
floppy.minVirtualTimeReadID
floppy.image.aiomgr
floppy.force144mb
floppy.asyncTimeout
floppy.aiomgr

Don't use unless you know what you are doing!


 

floppy0.present = "TRUE"
floppy0.fileName = "newly-created.flp"
floppy0.fileType = "file"
floppy0.startConnected = "TRUE"

 

 


WARNING: don't use a newly created - unformatted floppy-image like this: your VM might hang for a very long time.

 

 

 

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